Supply Planning & Fulfillment Manager

About the Role

At ABB, we help industries outrun - leaner and cleaner. Here, progress is an expectation - for you, your team, and the world. As a global market leader, we'll give you what you need to make it happen. It won't always be easy, growing takes grit. But at ABB, you'll never run alone. Run what runs the world.

Reports to: Manufacturing Unit Manager

Work model: Onsite, Pinetops, NC

Your Role and Responsibilities

In this role, you will lead Supply Planning, Inventory Management, Order Handling, and Resource Management in the local business unit. You will drive planning initiatives to improve customer on time delivery and lead-time, be accountable for inventory and supply plan adherence, and be responsible for reporting resource utilization. In addition, you will lead local order handling and customer excellence team in managing front-end priorities and communication.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Production & Capacity Planning including Master Production Schedules (MPS); plant capacity and resource availability; work orders and bottlenecks; run strategies, changeovers, and shift schedules
• Demand & Supply Coordination including Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP); alignment with procurement and suppliers; Managing planning parameters
• WIP & finished goods inventory; overseeing Order Fulfillment, Customer Delivery & Customer Service
• Implement Lean, Six Sigma, and continuous improvement initiatives to reduce cost and lead time
• Cross-Functional Leadership and collaboration with Production, Quality, Procurement, Engineering, Logistics, and Sales
• Risk management

Qualifications for the Role

• Bachelor degree in engineering, business, or manufacturing-related field PLUS minimum 10 years experience manufacturing planning and fulfillment working with flow products and systems
• Experience must include minimum 5 years of managerial experience as P&F Manager in a high paced manufacturing company with a multiple customer facing base (internal and external)
• Sound knowledge of planning ERP systems, demand planning, and lean manufacturing
• Proven experience in SAP, capacity planning, and business analytics tools
• Proven ability to review, assess and implement changes in diverse Master Planning, Production Control, Customer Service activities
• Demonstrated experience in customer-facing communication, stakeholder management and ability to handle customer delivery/quality/service discussions
• Fluent, confident English language skills
• Candidates must already have a work authorization that would permit them to work for ABB in the US

About ABB's Distribution Solutions Division

ABB's Distribution Solutions Division facilitates the efficient and reliable distribution, protection and control of power by improving electric power quality while strengthening the resilience of the grid. The Division offers segment-specific products and solutions that largely serve utilities, industry and infrastructure segments, often providing the requisite medium-voltage link between high-voltage transmission systems and low-voltage users. With ABB Ability™ enabled connected solutions at its core, the offering includes medium-voltage air- and gas-insulated switchgear (1 to 66 kilovolts), indoor and outdoor circuit breakers, reclosers, fuses, contactors, relays, instrument transformers, sensors, motor control centers, as well as low-voltage switchgear for the ANSI standard markets.

Why ABB?

We empower you to take initiative, challenge ideas, and lead with confidence. You'll grow through meaningful work, continuous learning, and support that's tailored to your goals. Every idea you share and every action you take contributes to something bigger.

Benefits for Eligible US Employees

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Health, Life & Disability

• Choice between two medical plan options: A PPO plan called the Copay Plan OR a High Deductible Health Plan (with a Health Savings Account) called the High Deductible Plan
• Choice between two dental plan options: Core and Core Plus
• Vision benefit
• Company paid life insurance (2X base pay)
• Company paid AD&D (1X base pay)
• Voluntary life and AD&D – 100% employee paid up to maximums
• Short Term Disability – up to 26 weeks – Company paid
• Long Term Disability – 60% of pay – Company paid. Ability to "buy-up" to 66 2/3% of pay
• Supplemental benefits – 100% employee paid (Accident insurance, hospital indemnity, critical illness, pet insurance)
• Parental Leave – up to 6 weeks
• Employee Assistance Program
• Health Advocate support resources for mental/behavioral health, general health navigation and virtual health, and infertility/adoption
• Employee discount program

Retirement

• 401k Savings Plan with Company Contributions
• Employee Stock Acquisition Plan (ESAP)

Time Off

• Salaried exempt positions are provided vacation under a permissive time away policy

We Care

At ABB, we care about our people and their stories. We create safe, fair, equitable and inclusive working environments in which our people can succeed and develop, regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation or cultural, religious or social background. Diverse teams make us stronger. ABB is also committed to a high standard of integrity in everything we do.

We Grow

We help our people succeed and develop, and we empower them to create their own careers at ABB. Our benefits, reward and development programs encompass a wide array of offerings.

Equal Employment Opportunity

ABB is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer for protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities at ABB. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their sex (gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation), marital status, citizenship, age, race and ethnicity, inclusive of traits historically associated with race or ethnicity, including but not limited to hair texture and protective hairstyles, color, religious creed, national origin, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, genetic information, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal and state law.

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